Show because pupils walking up the walk to the front entrance of the sc school hoolin in a peterson N J suburb soiled the entrance with their muddy shoes the principal mrs florence bryant ordered the entrance closed incensed at this order 50 of the pupils being supported by their parents went on a i strike the board of education voted to stand by the teacher in the interest of tidiness aad a id order and to invoke the truancy lalif law if necessary to break the strike figures recently compiled show that chicago his has moving pl picture i theaters which are patronized by an average of persons daily the sunday at amounts to nearly or half the population of the city catering to the powerful public interest moving picture de der r part apartments ments have been established by three of the big dailies there in which the stories told in the current films are i printed several big magazines are now published devoted entirely to the ak movies with a tag about his neck showing that 18 cents in posta postage gehad had been paid for his transportation the two year old nephew of mrs E H staley of wellington kans co come me safely by parcel post from the home of his grandmother to the home of Ms mrs staley he had a 25 mile ride over a rural route before reaching the railroad he enjoyed the hospitality of the mail clerks and shared their lunch with them strictly the postal rules in this country do not provide for sending human beings by mail I 1 judgie judge E J oconnor OCon noro of the superior V court of Oe oelwein lweln iowa has just been sk nth oka ivl ion he roust must f face aco 1 three other th r andl indict c V ments charging misconduct in office perhaps this e experience ap ermence will rid him of some of the contempt which evidently has been bred in him by familiarity with the law the stringent antiliquor anti liquor laws lawi that are being adopted all over the country and the increasing public hostility to the whole drink business is finally resulting in a curtailing of production of whisky by the big distilleries there are huge stocks of liamor on hand band which the market will not absorb and the overproduction is causing stagnation in the business to the great sorrow no doubt of his satanic majesty burglars entered a store in new york the other night and piled and bundled a quantity of goods in readiness for being taken aiken away when the carriage they had ar arranged ringed tor for should call at then as it lacked considerable ti time me till that hour they set an alarm clock to wake them at and lay down for adap a nap an employee coming in at five discovered them asleep and as a result they arenow taking an extended rest behind the bars edwin ginn publisher of school and college textbooks text books died jan 21 at his home in Bs boston ton mr ginn has been prominently identified with the movement to establish harmonious relations between capital and labor and for securing better homing conditions he was also the of the international school of peace to which he contributed annually and for which he made a bequest of in his will mrs wife of 0 an employee m of a silk dyeing plant near Pass Fassi fac ac N J in putting up her husbands lunch by mistake poured his coffee into a bottle that had contained a deadly poison later discovering llie mistake she rushed to ahe he horne home of a neighbor and implored hm to go to io the mill and war warn Go dolen the neighbor realizing the gravity of the case set out and rad ran the whole distance to the mill four miles but he was on time and Go dolens life was saved Pre prevailing rains kalns and floods in the vi cikity of stockton calif have caused the death of ground squirrels many of the ami animals nials were drowned and farmers who regard thera them as a pest killed vast numbers as the rodents caught in the hood flood swam ashore from the streams some borne ranch employees each claim to have killed more than according to statistics issued bythe office of the new york secretary of state a total of nearly motor vehicles are now registered it in the varlo various as countries of the world the i united aai 4 1 Grga 1 iop V R I 1 second rit sarly wi t fa r the h 0 toul o til number cnown known it in various other european countries is and the estimated total in other countries i is s L C phillips will plant 1000 acres of his southeast missouri land in sun flowers this year as a further demonstration that this plant can be cultivated with profit on land where other crops crop may not thrive so well phillips who owns approximately ely asoo acres half of which is in cultivation has been experimenting for several years year in the culture of sunflowers sun flowers whose seed when mixed with other seed makes excellent chicken and hog feed last year following the flood he planted nearly acres in sunflowers sun flowers the cost 0 of planting and harvesting is about 86 6 in an acre he says and the returns from 35 to 48 I 1 |